Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Not less than one hundred and twenty-six clergymen sailed from New York for Europe in single day recently. Much good may it do them.
 This is a world of change. An aged citi- zen of Camden, Maine, tells of the time when salmon were plentiful and 50 little esteemed that an apprentice to any trade had to sign articles binding him to eat salmon twice a week, and thought it most disa- greeable part of the contract.
 Judge Kelley of Philadelphia, the father of the house of representatives, says in 'tcard :" Humanity and consistency concur in requiring me to give notice to all whom it may concern that am the only citizen of the fourth district who is thoroughly accli- mated to the malarial atmosphere of the house, and that mean to devote the balance of my life to saving any of my constituents from it's baneful influence.
 The Free Masons of Missouri are as much stirred up as the Free Masons of Connecticut, though not for a similar cause. The Masonic Grand lodge of Missouri has adopted mea- sures for the expulsion from the order of all the members engaged in the saloon business. Several years ago it was decided not to re- ceive into the order any more saloon keepers and now those who were then in must get out The German members are greatly in- censed over the measure and say that it is insult to the whole German American popu- lation.
 The 'tBible in the schools" has made trouble in Plvmpton, Massachusetts. Maria the district school. It has been the custom to open the days exercises with scripture reading. Miss Gayron attempted to abolish this custom; the committee expostulated; the teacher stuck to her Catholic conviction that it wasn't good to read the Bible in school; the committee tried to compromise on the Lords prayer, but Miss Gayron would not yield and the committee told her to go. The result is that the Bible stays in the school.
 Michigan railroad companies think they have succeeded in evading the provisions of the interstate commerce law against rebates to large shippers. Grand Rapids has some of the biggest furniture factories in the coun- y, same terms they had before the law the rail roads assume the expense of trucking the raw stock and furniture between the factories and the freight depot; that is, the furniture con- panies maintain their same big trucking teams and vans, but charge the expense of keeping them to the railroads. The latter declare that the law "cannot prohibit the railroads assuming extra burdens if they feel like it."
 An important change is proposed in Boston whereby three Unitarian church societies are to be consolidated. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, Dr. Bartol and MT. Savage are the pastors concerned. Dr. Bartol wishes to re- tire from the active duties of the ministry on account of old age. Dr. Hale wishes to be may have more time for literary pursuits; and so if the plan is carried out MT. Savage will be the regular pastor and preacher of the church, with Dr. Hale as his associate. The only objection to the plan is that MT. Savage's radical ideas would be distasteful to the more conservative Unitarians of the other two churches.
 Dr. Wilkins, in the Amerlcan Journal of Insanity, draws attention to the considerable proportion of insane Chinamen in California. As to the belief that there is little or no in- sanity in China, Dr. Wilkins states that he has been informed by natives of that country that when a man becomes insane he is placed in solitary confinement and eventually dies. From his own observation, however, the writer is led to believe that the proportion of Chinamen who become insane is not 80 great as that of other nationalities. This compar- ative immunity he ascribes more particularly to the fact that they eat rice and unstimulat- ing food, and also somewhat to their stolidity of temperature. So far as he was able to observe. there was nothing peculiar about the forms of mental Arrangement eneoun- tered among the Chinese; they were afflicted with melancholia, mania and dementia, much in the same proportion as European nations.